Webelos Crossover resources

The Boy’s Webelos den is in its last few months, and we’ve spent a lot of time over the last month visiting troop meetings and camping out with troops as the Webelos start making their decisions about which troop to join. We have four Boy Scout troops in our area, and we’ve sent boys to all four in the last few years. As Assistant Cubmaster this year, my primary job has been to promote Webelos-Troop relations and encourage Webelos to participate in activities with troops.

I’ve found a number of resources on the web lately that have helped us with that transition program.

Scoutmaster Jerry’s post about finding the adventure on the Scoutmaster Minute blog is mostly “just” inspirational. I admire his efforts to help Webelos find the right troop for them even — especially — when it’s not his troop.

Scout Circle for November 2013 was about Webelos crossover issues. Clarke Green talked about a number of things I found useful (as is usually the case with Clarke!). His new book, The Scouter’s Journey, is available from his site at scoutmastercg.com, which is full of great Scouting ideas.